Membership

Honors and Awards

Student Translation Award

In 2008, ATA will award a grant-in-aid to a student for a literary or sci-tech translation or translation-related project.

The project, which may be derived from any facet of translation studies, should result in a project with post-grant applicability, such as a publication, a conference presentation, or teaching materials. Computerized materials are ineligible, as are dissertations and theses. Translations must be from a foreign language INTO ENGLISH. Previously untranslated works are preferred.

Eligibility

The award, to be presented at ATA's 49th Annual Conference in Orlando, FL (November 5-8), is open to any graduate or undergraduate student, or group of students, attending an accredited college or university in the United States. Preference will be given to students who have been or are currently enrolled in translator training programs. Students who have already published translations are ineligible. No individual student may submit more than one entry.

Application

Applicants must complete an entry form and submit a project description not to exceed 500 words. If the project is a translation, the description must present the work in its context and include a substantive statement of the difficulties and innovations involved in the project and the post-competition form the work will take. The application must be accompanied by a statement of support from the faculty member who is supervising the project. This letter should demonstrate the supervisor’s intimate familiarity with the student’s work and include detailed assessments of the project’s significance and of the student’s growth and development in translation.

If the project involves an actual translation, a translation sample of not less than 400 and not more than 500 words, together with the corresponding source-language text, must accompany the application. The translation sample may consist of two or more separate passages from the same work. For poetry, the number of words must total at least 300.

Nomination Deadline

April 18, 2008

Award

$500, a certificate of recognition, and up to $500 toward expenses for attending ATA's 49th Annual Conference in Orlando, FL (November 5-8, 2008). One or more certificates may also be awarded to runners-up.

Please send the entry form and application materials to:

American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation, Inc.
Columbia Plaza, Suite 101
350 E Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
Phone: (269) 383-6893
Fax: (269) 387-6333
Email: aftiorg@aol.com

Recipients of the Student Translation Award

1984   Julie Iezzi
1985   Susan Phillips; Stephanos Stephanides
1986   Gabriela Mahn; David Vandenberg
1987   Tracy Tyson
1988   John Berks
1989   Denise Guidotti
1990   Edwidge Danticat
1991   Lisa Sapinkopf
1992   Dana Loewy
1993   Hilary Weiss
1994   Paula Haydar
1995   None Awarded
1996   Thomas G. Morgan
1997   Ruth Lyon Fuchs
1998   Sonya Eremenco
1999   Jartu Gallashaw Toles
2000   Jessica Cohen
2001   Aaron Crippen
2002   None Awarded
2003   Jennifer Grotz
2004   None Awarded
2005   Karen Elizabeth Rembold
2006   None Awarded
2007   T. Alexis Crowell